Traditional agricultural tool making and repairing techniques

Jiangsu
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Traditional agricultural tool making and restoration skills, a traditional skills project of the seventh batch of representative projects of Lianyungang's municipal intangible cultural heritage. The Hu family's ancient agricultural tool restoration and production skills are a unique skill that inherits the Hu family's repair and production of precious agricultural tools with complex craftsmanship and high technical content in traditional agricultural tools based on the predecessors' carpentry. Since moving from Suzhou to Guannan, they have continued to engage in carpentry skills, and inherited the craftsmanship of Suzhou carpenters, the spirit of craftsmanship of striving for excellence, and professionally made and repaired important agricultural tools such as three-wheeled ox carts (carts), wheelbarrows, plow carts (plows), and water wheels. In the Republic of China period, my father Hu Weiheng followed his grandfather Hu Xuechun and engaged in the production of large agricultural tools in Huai'an, Yancheng, Lianyungang, and Linyi, Shandong, all year round. He became a well-known "professional household" in agricultural tool production. During the busy farming season, he returned to his hometown to visit villages and households to repair important large agricultural tools for the surrounding villages. Because of his exquisite craftsmanship and being available at any time, he was highly evaluated by the society and had a good reputation among the people. With the development of the times, the traditional agricultural tools of the vast number of farmers for thousands of years have gradually been replaced by agricultural machinery. Especially since the reform and opening up, agricultural mechanization has been popularized, and traditional agricultural tools have withdrawn from the stage of history. The craftsmanship of making agricultural tools is no longer useful. Most of the agricultural tool craftsmen in the society have changed their careers or "returned to the fields". We chose to collect and study traditional agricultural tools. By 2000, we had collected more than 10,000 agricultural cultural items, the largest number in the country. We used ancestral restoration techniques to carry out rescue restoration of important agricultural tools, and established an agricultural culture museum at our own expense, which is open to the public free of charge. The total number of visitors has reached more than 100,000, allowing people to remember their homesickness and inherit agricultural culture. In 2012, the "Lianyungang Agricultural Culture Research Institute" was established, and cultural industries were established. Cai Lizhi, an agricultural expert in the city, and Liu Fenggui, a historian in the city, were hired to join the research team, which has achieved fruitful results and transformed the research results into productivity. Monographs such as "Witnessing the Traditional Agricultural Tools of Chinese Agricultural Civilization", "Chinese Traditional Craftsmen", and "History of the Development of Agricultural Tools in Guannan County" have been published, filling the gap in this field. (No pictures available, please provide them.) (No pictures available, please provide them.)

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